Presidential Insurrection
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s threat to deploy military to states to help squash unrest would require him to use the Insurrection Act of 1807. We discuss that law’s history and whether Trump would need support from governors to invoke it.
Former VP Joe Biden spoke on Monday, discussing inequality, racial injustice, and calling for unity. Biden is now proposing federal legislation to reform police, and has committed to addressing institutional racism if elected.
And in headlines: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on allowing Trump’s terrible posts, Australia’s PM calls for an investigation into US police violence towards reporters, and Fuller House explains a distinct lack of Aunt Becky.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 3rd. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what the day where we are asking police if we can borrow |
| 0:11.7 | one of their big armored trucks to help drive people to work. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, I mean, you know, you have them and you clearly don't need them, so just toss the keys. |
| 0:19.2 | My hands are open. |
| 0:20.7 | On today's show, a look at the president's powers to send military into American cities, |
| 0:30.5 | then some headlines. |
| 0:31.9 | But first the latest. |
| 0:33.4 | Great. First things first, Chief Moore, you've got to do a better job of pretending you care |
| 0:37.5 | about this. Man, I've been watching you roll your eyes and offer half-hearted smirk |
| 0:41.4 | acting like a teenager who's falling asleep in detention. Are you not aware of the work |
| 0:45.3 | crime cheer department's doing? Are you just that impatient to go do more of them? |
| 0:48.8 | I see a lot of you particularly sober off, only react when folks use profanity in their remarks. |
| 0:54.0 | If you think curse words are bad, wait until you hear about these 600 plus murders your |
| 0:58.4 | department has committed over the last seven years. As long as Moore's out here equating peaceful |
| 1:02.9 | protesters with cops who murder black people, you all could pretend to be as angry about murder |
| 1:07.9 | as the F word. Okay, kids. |
| 1:10.2 | Wow. |
| 1:11.0 | Brap. |
| 1:12.2 | Pew, pew. Okay. That was one of hundreds of Los Angeles residents who called in yesterday to the |
| 1:17.9 | LA police commissioner's meeting to demand the department be defunded, the leadership resign, |
| 1:22.7 | and protesters be allowed to make their voices heard. Yes. |
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